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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1900
Page
3
W T Stead reports from The Hague that stories reach Holland of women and children in reconcentration camps near Kimberley. Accounts describe abduction, imprisonment, starvation, torn clothing, and abuses by soldiers, with some women taken to hospital for treatment.
Kru ger arrived in Amsterdam on Wednesday and was hosted by the city. The reception surpassed the enthusiasm shown on his arrival at The Hague as locals welcomed the Brazilian? no, Netherlands.
Gen. Dewet mounted a bold raid through British lines at Thaba N Chu resulting in 30 killed or wounded and 12 captured or taken prisoner. The move reported from Mazerus Bosutoland on December 19 notes significant casualties and enemy setbacks.
Army court of inquiry revisits the Booz death at West Point as cadets admit hazing was common in the academy. Witnesses describe feeding Tabasco sauce and other humiliations, while Booz reportedly caused himself to be disliked and was cut by peers.
A woman living on South Capitol Avenue reported being attacked by a Black man on Illinois Avenue between Norwood and McCarty near midnight Tuesday. Her screams alerted neighbors. the assailant fled, and she fled home unable to name herself. She said she worked at a downtown store. no purse was taken.
Mrs. Minnie Collins, 21, of 522 East Wabash Street, overdosed on headache powders and paregoric for head and stomach pain. Dr. Wright from the City Dispensary treated her with several doses and saved her.
An advertisement extols Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup as pleasant to take and loved by children. It urges buying the genuine Dr. John W. Cough Byrup to ensure authenticity and effectiveness.
In Paris Illinois two days before execution the condemned man Owens keeps his identity secret, joking with scaffold builders and relying on his attorney J Dyas and cellmate George Meece for secrecy. He hints at potentially revealing his name after death. Dyas asserts the family background in Kentucky.
At a Lansing dinner Gov. Pingree quipped about a court missing invited guests and proposed a makeshift panel to oversee the Senate. The event featured a halcyon mood with forty eight cases of wine two barrels of cocktails four demijohns of whisky and a case of brandy.
Sheriff Sauley captured William Christy 29, a fugitive from Arkansas, connected to ex Sheriff J F McCreary of Tipton county Indiana. Christy, once tied to a neighbor dispute that left Abe Straley wounded, fled after bond posting. He was found near Huntsville and returned after a 40 mile trip from St Louis.
Indiana Dental College at W Cor Delaware and Chiosis opens to patients from 8 a m to 5 p m for all kinds of dental work. Fees are to cover costs only.
Boonville Indiana December coroner Williams reaches verdict that Joseph Rolla died by unknown hands after a lynching Monday night. Body cut down by coroner and headed to Tennessee for investigation by the prosecutor amid a large but quiet crowd Tuesday.
A westbound Big Four freight derailed at Parker ten miles east of MU. ACIE on Wednesday morning. Three tramps are believed buried in the wreckage as twenty cars were almost demolished.
Richmond Indiana December 19 sixty seven years of married life is the record of Mr and Mrs Walter T Carpenter of West Richmond Mr Carpenter will be 90 on June 1 wife about 89 both in old health and frequently go to church
Numerous short notices cover a wide Indiana area. Legrand Ammerman nearly cuts himself during a self performed surgery eight miles north of Muncie. Bedford opens jury trials for Thomasson and Gaines in January for a murder case. Kokomo plans an independent electric plant. Wycoff celebrate sixty years of marriage in Monroe County. Slot machines shut down in Muncie. The Kelly axe plant to resume with 1400 workers. Ice disaster narrowly averted on a skating pond. Public figures face embezzlement and court rulings. Fires disrupt Alexandria plant. others face legal probes and police searches across Marion, Columbus, Shelbyville, and South Bend. Local reform reduces Portage township expenditures sharply. A gas meter at Frankfort court house spawns a joke about cosmic gas measurement. Families suffer accidents in Armaos Sence and New London. A physician extols digestion aids and Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a cure.
Osman Pasha arrives in London seeking support from Lord Salisbury for a Kurdish and Armenian uprising against the sultan of Turkey. He claims an army of 100000 is ready to march with France Germany Austria Italy and Spain assured neutrality and expects Russian backing against Turkey.
Patrolmen Ward and McKinney arrested Arthur McDonald thirteen after his father Homer reported the theft of two silver watches a gold ring a coat and vest and 310.08 from 824 Darnelist. The boy denied the charge claiming indifference as he was found with a gang on West street.
A heavily marked white bulldog collar and mused muzzle gets lost in fog near Washington and Meridian. The master whistles but the dog cannot find him. Crowds watch as the dog paces up and down, then finally enters a store with a young woman.
Joseph H. Orr aged 15 and six feet seven inches tall was arrested in New York Monday night after fleeing Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania with $204 his father’s money. At arrest he had $137, and his father retrieved him for a return home.
December report lists smoked meats vegetables and fruits with prices. Hams bacon pork lard Wursts and sausages shown with per pound or per barrel rates. Fresh produce includes potatoes beans onions cabbage celery and citrus and bananas trades.
A historical price sheet lists herring, oysters, seeds, hides, tallow, flour and feed, oils, cheese, eggs, butter, live poultry, coal retail, drugs and more. Items include bulk oysters at 1.10 per gallon, best Baltimore selects at 1.40 per gallon, clover and alfalfa seeds by the bushel, hardwood hides by grade, and flour contracts with winter patents at 4.30 per barrel.
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